We are thrilled to announce that Not Just Another Workshop is back and better than ever! We have all new classes to cover everything from the planes of ringing to that forgotten cousin. We even brought back the 2015 favorite with all new activities. We are returning to Chapel Hill United Methodist Church for our venue, but with a few logistical upgrades. We have the classes all centrally located near registration, and we are bringing snacks. See! We did read all of those revi

We cannot begin to thank everyone who attend Not Jut Another Workshop on Saturday, Octobe 25, 2015. We had an amazing turnout and even better feedback. Based on the numbers and the surveys it was a huge success. However, we thought about asking a few of our teachers what they thought about NJAW (as we so fondly called it). Here is what they had to say. "Two weeks crammed into four days; that is what it felt like at Handbell Musicians of America’s Pinnacle event. As we left th

Earlier today, the board of directors for CORD (Central Oklahoma Ringers & Directors) made the difficult decision to disband their organization after twenty-five years of delivering exceptional educational workshops and festivals to handbell and handchime ringers across Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. Part of CORD's decision to disband included the knowledge that OCHE would keep delivering the same expert level of workshops and festivals in Oklahoma for the next generation of ha

This past May, I was invited by Venita MacGorman to travel with the St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church team to Jamaica on a music mission trip. Our goal was to equip the local congregations with enough music reading skills to make use of their new Caribbean hymnal on a regular basis. We did that through music reading sessions with adults and children as well as small group guitar, piano, recorder, and drum sessions. Since my return from Jamaica. I've had countless people a